skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Social media (and the attention economy) are worse for young brains than drugs.

I don't think you need young in that sentence. I see social media's negative effects on all age groups.

I see it in my own life (I'm 30): somehow, I feel compelled to keep track of politics, and I watch political shows way too much. I don't learn anything from it 98% of the time. After I watch/read about that topic, I can't concentrate on anything for long, I want to know more. The moment I wake up, I reach to the mobile to read the news. Then, I visit some meme sites, then I go to Hacker News. When I don't want to wake up yet, I repeat.

As a defense mechanism, I deactivated Facebook, I only post programming content on Twitter and I aggressively mute anyone who brings political tweets in my feed. I disabled notifications from most apps. I set up content blocker extensions so I don't accidentally wander to sites I don't want to visit. When I visit YouTube, I intentionally focus on the task at hand and try to not let the algorithm distract me (which is hard, because their recommendations almost always resonate with me). It works "okay", but I still didn't break the habit and I need strong self-control.

I see it also with my mother and sister, they are approx 60 and 35. They never get bored of scrolling through their feeds, they can't focus on anything else. They also often feel bad because their lives don't match what they see on the web. They make up a persona online that don't match their reality (which I see).

I'm not advocating for banning these things for adults, but I'd raise this issue to the people who read my comment: most adults behave very similarly to children, so observe your behavior and adapt.
Shorts have been getting slaughtered in covering rallies since the first short was allowed.

I can't believe these "professional" funds would keep short positions open on an equity with crazy-high short interest...that's like Trading-For-Dummies grade fail.

What's more amazing is many of their clients will be destroyed in the largest bubble in history, where money was given out to every idiot with a TD Ameritrade account.
This is ethics-washing. FTA: "Since October 2016 our calves have stayed with their mothers for 5 to 6 months."

What happens month 7?
Like GoTenna Mesh?
This is for embedded programming which is totally different to the sort of programming your thinking of.
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What a missed opportunity to transform it into an open-air museum.
I find this fascinating. If we allow ourselves to entertain the idea of quantum time paradoxes, could it be that the radioactivity was in fact caused by the ghost of Marie Curie herself? She would have a very strong and obvious reason to haunt the science.
Is it possible that we have different ideas of what constitutes "extravagantly"? I wonder if anyone has quantified student spending?
It sends the password, if you have your Apple Keychain synced in iCloud, you can then go on your Mac and access the password in the list of saved wifi password.
There is a clear difference between racism and acknowledging white privilege. White privilege simple describes one way in which racism manifests itself. If you can't tell the difference between a KKK member and someone says that people with white names getting called back for job interviews more than people with black names is white privilege then you are willfully ignorant. It is not racist to say that someone benefits from white privilege.

Also the person you are replying to didn't say they destroy peoples lives based on racial hatred. They haven't destroyed anyone's lives because they're white.
We become the product. Social media needs us in order to make a buck and they will do everything in their power that we need them. Some of it is to our benefit but many times it's a waste of time and trying to create a need where there was none. TL;DR yes, social media are drug dealers :)
The discussion on the editorial decisions a photog makes has gotten so technical that they are now no longer allowed to shoot in RAW. They are only allowed to submit camera orginal JPEG images. The newsies are so afraid of any "manipulation" comments that they do not allow changing the exposure or developing the RAW image in "post".
Money Stuff had some good coverage of the GameStop / r/wallstreetbets shenanigans over the past couple of days:

Monday: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2021-01-25/money-...

Yesterday: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-26/will-w...

Update: here's today's issue: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-27/reddit...
How does it compare to Kraken? It was fast enough that Sony recently built Kraken into the PS5 hardware.
Actually, as part of "Electrify everything", it would probably be good to replace a significant chunk of the banking system with a cryptocurrency layer (maybe bitcoin, maybe not).

With green energy, digital gold is a lot more green than physical gold. Bitcoin is like electric cars – not super green right in this moment when the grid is still dirty, but all it takes to make it greener is to green up the grid.

Meanwhile the classical banking system: uses all forms of transport which green up slower (armored cars, planes, etc), requires crazy amounts of construction (I don't even want to guess how much cement has been used in the construction of physical banks all over the world), all those buildings use energy for AC/lighting/etc, require huge amounts of manpower to manage trust in the system (people definitely aren't green), and also need their own datacenters anyway. And I'm sure I'm forgetting some things, where as with BTC pretty much all consumption is baked into mining, which again just gets greener automatically as the grid gets greener. Nobody is running a Bitcoin mining operation off of diesel generators. If you did the math (impractical given the breadth of the existing banking system), I think you'd find Bitcoin is already far greener than the existing banking system, by a huge margin.

And cryptos like Ethereum have the potential to 10x/100x/1000x that with things like PoS vs. PoW as well as the fact that Ethereum smart contracts can not only replace banking but probably other industries as well, such as title companies and various other middlemen.
TIL about zRAM, emailed myself this config to try at work

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-enable-the-zram-...
Is AMD booking sales before they manufacture the products? I can’t make sense of their sales.
A guide to the React useState hook
Yes, static analysis of highly dynamic languages like javascript or ruby is tremendously difficult. Sound results are nearly impossible because you need to havoc so frequently. But if you permit some error and ask for a little extra help from developers in cases outside normal style for a language you can still do a pretty good job.
When their employees relocate to the US, they're required to give their employer power of attorney, which is used to report phony tax returns and take the refund checks.

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/ites/tcs-to-pay-30...

When they submit H-1B applications, they submit the same form 10 times so their employees get selected because they figured out that the H-1B selection process is literally someone grabbing a random envelope from a mail container.
> Why wouldn't they double down?

Because short sellers accept potentially unlimited liability in the event of a price increase. Remember the old maxim: the markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

The operating theory of the WallStreetBet hivemind is that the short sellers (collectively) are in so deep that further price increases will force them to close out their positions by buying back stock at a loss. Short sales are ultimately made on margin (because they're a debt of a share), and margin accounts will be called in at some ratio.

That "short squeeze" would cause the price to spiral ever further, and that price increase would then force any remaining short sellers out of the market.

See https://moxreports.com/vw-infinity-squeeze/ for a well-known, circa 2008 short squeeze that happened to Volkswagen.

The issue with the operating theory is that it's fuzzy; there's no way to know what price point will trigger such a short squeeze.

> I don't buy individual stocks and even I'm tempted to get in on the short side right now. Seems like an easy way to turn $1k into $10k.

Only if you are highly leveraged yourself, exposing you to those dramatic losses if you mis-time the market even slightly. If you do want to take the down-side of Gamestop, it'd be safer to buy a put option to limit your potential loss. However, the high implied volatility also makes the trade a bit expensive right now.

(Edit to add: I have no financial interest in Gamestop, up or down.)
I'm not into airplanes much, but I've long been fascinated by the engineering awesomeness of the A-10 plane. There's tons of videos online that show many aspects of it.

I'd love to have an opportunity to fly one, even though I don't know how to fly planes :(
Our team does a 10 minute meditation together after standup. Totally optional, of course. Seems like most people really enjoy it.
One reason for depriorizing it might be that they realized iGPU performance isn't as relevant as they hoped in recent history. AMD spent years betting heavily on concepts like the APU, HSA, tight coupling with coherent virtual memory access from GPU and CPU side etc.

They tried to do a "build it and they will come" but the software didn't come and Intel ate their lunch with low effort iGPUs. Advances of GPU programming slowed industry wide, especially software & dev experience / programming language wise, and the GPU world remained far from CPU programming productivity. (And you can still get 2 orders of magnitude of parallelism staying on the CPU, from SIMD, multicore and SMT).

They learned their lesson, and this time around came back with a product that can beat Intel in their own game.
I generally don't buy a new PC every year and there's something to be said about future proofing. PCIe 4 may be negligible today, I doubt that will be the case in 2 years when we've been through at least one full graphics card lifecycle and maybe 2, depending on how heated the competition becomes.

Even if I were to buy a new CPU, I don't want to buy a new motherboard too just to have access to 4.0 slots.
The problem, if there is one, with the web stuff discussed here is not that it is not strict enough to facilitate two way data binding but the opposite. Modern web frameworks use stricter one way data binding because they posit two way data binding is too dangerous / hard to reason about. It could easily be added and vue does in fact have some of it.
What is Corporate Development, and Why does it Matter?
Why wouldn't I remap ctrl-c? It is the shortcut for copy. The letter c is nowhere in the word interrupt.
Prototyping fast does not guarantee shipping robust software fast, which is in part why the JS ecosystem has been having problems.

To apply the common construction analogy to JavaScript: no one would call a quick sketch on a napkin a valid blueprint for a building.
> Social media (and the attention economy) are worse for young brains than drugs.

I hear what you're saying but I'm pretty sure drugs (like meth) are much worse, we just manage to keep kids away from them, whereas Internet is given to them.
TasksBoard – Finally a Good Desktop App for Google Tasks
Is it the money, or just society in general moving into the space? Darkness is an inherent part of human life, and the internet is now the agora. For a social animal, any aspect of existence will have been gamified from the start...
Jami is a very good p2p messenger - teleconferencing app. There are still some bugs, but it is usable. The next version is probably going to have group chats.
Those betting against the short sellers profit. The short sellers are obliged to buy stock to cover their short positions which are suddenly quite expensive. Their buying then further creates demand pushing the price up even more - a short squeeze.
There are around 800,000 people reading that subreddit right now. It seems like around 60 posts being submitted every second. Could you record these figures too?
> WallStreetBets will be anarchy...

Anarchy? That place thrives both on their people making giant wins AND giant losses.
Why is that corrupt? Wall Street does that hourly.
Probably. But its pointless - the cost of a mistake here is zero. The value is in not pissing off the customer. So its a lazy, biased approach and it pays to be self-aware enough to cure oneself of it.
Thing I noticed is that teens are responding to the thinking fads with a lot of intensity. They'll overthink their issues, their sexuality, their identity. Internet amplifies the already amplifying mind ..
Some are sent for slaughter, of course. Clearly, this does not address the ethical concerns of people who consider slaughtering animals for human feed is unethical; only the concerns of the people who consider separating a calf from its mother before it is weaned, and sending the calf for slaughter at that time, is unethical.
The usual counterargument I see offered to that is that sure, it is great if we can impede the spread of some completely stupid belief like flat Earth, but sometimes those things that are crazy by conventional wisdom turn out to be true.

At that point, they usually mention Galileo and maybe some others, and they ask how do we avoid squashing the next Galileo with our measures to limit the spread of flat Earth theories?

The answer is that if flat Earth or whatever is actually correct it will eventually prevail as did Galileo and all the others they cite (and they faced much more severe measures than merely being denied use of their society's equivalent of mass media). It will just take longer as it will have to use slower more personal communication channels.

That's a good thing. Let's say there are dozens of radical theories circulating, and suppose one of them really is the next Galileo type situation, and the rest really are just utterly insane.

If they all have to spread by the slower more personal channels any given person will likely only be exposed to maybe two or three of them. They aren't overwhelmed by them, and that gives them a better chance of figuring out that the stupid ones are in fact stupid. It is usually much more work to refute a theory, even a stupid one, than to come up with it, and the slow spread gives time for the refutations to be developed and put out there.

If they were all on the fast mass audience channels, people get exposed to so many of them that they don't have time to really figure out if they make sense, and (2) even if a good refutation is out it is easy to miss it in all the noise.
Everyone who loses their shirts will learn a lesson they'll never forget. Pain is the best teacher.

The smart people learn from other people's pain.
The video generation demo is pretty neat but it took nearly 2 minutes to finish rendering. I'd be interested to know how this scales under high workloads and how updates can be deployed without disrupting long running processes like this one.
I'm more talking about being able to exchange messages across continents without offering somebody full TCP/IP access to your network. Your point is valid though
Okay so on things we are gatekeeping from the poor we have moved on to...

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Clothes?
This is called victim blaming.
Also, the furniture market is just insane. If you want a chest of drawers, you either pay $100 for a cheap flat pack self-assembled one from IKEA and take it home today, or similar prices for a similar one online from Wayfair.com (a bit more of a gamble), or you pay over $1000 for something that won’t show up for 6 months. It’s bizarre that you can buy a brand new car with cash and take it home today, but the supply chain for wooden rectangles is extremely underdeveloped.
I'm under the impression that order books tend to be hard to scale horizontally, because they have tremendous atomicity requirement.

Can anybody chime in whether these systems, today, tend to be on distributed infra versus e.g. mainframes or other big vertical compute pieces?
No, in Firefox I've seen each private window is a separate unrelated container.
It is!

I think that effort is worth it. As it stands, we've all become digital hoarders as the up-front cost to accumulate stuff like photos and documents goes to zero. The problem is you're dumping LOTS of cost into the future.

Photos are a big thing for me.

Initially, I used applications (Picasa and later iPhoto) to tag photos with metadata to indicate importance, etc. Applications tend to have zero respect for to commitment to preserving metadata. So by the time my kids are going to college, my family is going to have 200,000+ photos alone. What's the point? Am I getting pleasure (or to borrow from the Netflix organizational guru "Does it bring joy?") from this data?

Personally, my new strategy, having been burned by the tools is a pyramid:

1. Print and Frame/preserve important or significant pictures (Say 20-30/year)

2. Curate others that we care about. (Say 500/year or 5-8%)

3. Purge stuff of no value. (Say 2500/year or ~25%)

Based on my "performance" today, if I keep at it, I'll be able to reduce the rate of growth.
I believe they're saying that if you were to do that bootcamp for 4 years it would work out to ~1M, i.e. ridiculously more than any college.

I think it'd be 876,000 (36.5K * 6 * 4), but that's beside the point.
> The pricing depends on the number of connectors you need

It's not uncommon for even small companies to have as many as a dozen sources. This sort of pricing schema can hurt smaller companies with low data volume but many sources (think e-commerce, especially in the era of "headless").
The issue with pure p2p is that devices are not always online. Mobile devices usually forbid (or at least highly discourage) executing code in background which doesn’t help either.
SSB doesn't do encryption. Yes, you read that right. Messages are only signed.
I think a good tech one that is a bit opinionated is:
Does a project(s) build, and run (fully, without problems) in 5 or less steps?
Surprised by your cloud bill? 5 common issues and how to deal with them
Open-sourcing Datanymizer: in-flight template-driven data anonymization
I am in the process of switching from Lightroom to Darktable [1]. Lightroom seems to have better lens aberration fixing algorithms but I'm still learning Darktable, so, I might be doing something wrong.

Also, I do miss the styles selection from LR... There is a community around Darktable styles [2], but it doesn't seem to cover everything LR does.

On the bright side, Darktable seems very very fast (compared to LR) and the overall process (when you know what to do) is really satisfying.

[1] https://www.darktable.org/
[2] https://dtstyle.net/
>The problem is that, like with clothes, people THINK they need more and newer things all the time because Marketing tells them that they do.

This is a problem with capitalism, not IKEA or clothing.
Yeah, after losing an eye you've probably Pavlov'ed yourself into waking up by pure instinct :-)
The (large) company I work with brought on a bunch of Revature contractors, attracted to the cost savings. By and large, their skills were lacking and their attitudes overconfident which resulted in negative contribution to various projects.

The few that were good, got swept away when the company cancelled the entire contract. Those folks had to move to middle-of-nowhere America to work on projects that are unlikely to advance their skills much. They couldn’t afford to quit.

This experience mirrors my experience with software devs on H1B’s— these firms wield too much control over people.
The reason for hysteria isn't polarization alone, but also the left has a mission and is compelled to use everything to complete it, including such hysteric campaigns. Maybe it's not truly hysteria, but it looks, walk and talks like one.
Consider how many people saw the shooting of the Trump supporter storming the capitol or the killing of George Floyd. I can't imagine that level of exposure in 2005 or earlier. And this is just gore; we're not talking about sex (also, we don't have to choose between the two, so I don't understand the dichotomous argument).
It’s okay. Just don’t become a soldier for a mercenary firm.
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None of the things you list are unique to social media. They all existed before the rise of the socials. Many of them existed before the internet.
Short term, the price spikes as the hedge funds collectively go "would you take $300? How about $400? $1,000? $10,000?" and eventually enough people sell.

If they don't (let's say there's no price they'd sell at), a few things can happen:

The short-seller can sell their short position directly (transfer liability) to someone who thinks they can convince the stockholders.

The Company can issue more stock, diluting all shareholders, and sell to the short-sellers.

The short seller simply goes bankrupt, at which point liability gets settled in court (details depend on how they shorted, middle-men, etc.) - other people like brokers could get dragged into this too as they may guarantee the trade.
Yup, many full wood items. One of their cheapest dressers is pure pine. The Poang is just laminated wood.
It is this weird balance because I owe literally everything I know about programming to unsupervised internet access: asking questions in IRC rooms, finding random programs on random websites, posting on obscure forums, etc.

I was able to find some wonderful communities, like the iPhone jailbreaking community on IRC, which completely changed my life and put me on the path I am on now. I was also on Twitter in the early days, too, which was the primary way that the iOS development community communicated. Facebook allowed me to connect with my high school robotics community, as well.

Communities like this existed before my time with Flash games, Neopets, MySpace, etc. and continue to this day, with the Minecraft modding community, Roblox game building community, etc.

But at the same time I also agree that social media has become incredibly toxic and addictive, and we don’t give anyone any tools to navigate it. I ultimately quit social media entirely, but my younger sister spends 3.5 hours a day on social media. I think this is a relatively new beast, and not inherent to the internet itself.
Basically, because they're not wrong on the facts, and they're far from the first to realize that.

There's a decent not-meme-based story around GameStop's turnaround, and a number of actual investment firms saw it weeks before they did. Investment firms are betting against each other, as per usual.

Also, now that GameStop has all this extra value, they can actually improve, so the not-meme-based story becomes even more compelling.
There are also screenshots from some apps (I don't use them, dont know which ones) with messages saying that only AMC and GME stocks are being limited to protect risk, as well as total outages. I've seen one screenshot saying that users can only sell and not buy.
> Seems like an easy way to turn $1k into $10k.

Who wants to tell him?
Alternative title: "events of 2020 case poverty rate to regress to 2017/2018 levels"

Frankly I'm surprised the effect was so small considering that the industries hit hardest by covid employ a heck of a lot of people who are near the poverty line to begin with. I would expect all those people to be pushed to the other side of the line resulting in a much more dramatic increase in the poverty rate.
> I build robots from scratch, and I've turned it into my full time job.